Lainaus:
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Hi Pirssi!
Thanks a lot for your reply! I don't want a mechanical winch, thoses are realy too heavy. Thê original power take off, coupled with an hydraulic pump and hydraulic winch can pull as much if not more, it's not sensitive to humidity, and the pump can be used for other aplications. As well, it's lighter. 1000 euros for one axle? If this is that expensive, it might not be worth it. But here in france, i can't seem to find any! A guy on SLCK was saying i could find a pair for the same price.
Kiitos paljon.
Max.
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How much those hydraulic winches weight? I would use factory pto winch with rope, lifted up/moved backward and with stronger pin. HJ weights so much that one winch doesnt mean much. Move batterys to center of car and you have allmost saved weight of one pto winch (without wire). So stick with factory stuff is that weight is only reason to do hydraulics.
HJ-60/1 cable locking diffs here in finland are 3.7 (37 R/P 10), BJ-75 with narrower axle (same width as bj/fj-40) comes with 4.11 (37 R/P 9). BJ-75 diff is same and fits to any real land cruiser but then you need still hj60/1 inner axles with longer splines (speaking if you buy diff and inner axle only). I have bought cople pairs of hj-61 axles for 1000€. Hell you can get whole car for less if you are lucky. Sometimes i remember that diff + inner axle are sold for 350€. How much is pair of ARB air locking diffs there? Heres ARB costs roughly 1000€ per axle so thats why cable locking diffs are popular because they are usually half the price of ARBs. Finland is full of hj-60/1 with cable lockers and many of them are never used because they are under hj that is used only to tow horses/boats and other shit like that. Other good source is HDJ80 rear diff which comes with electronic locker and that too fits to any 40/60 series cruiser. I dont remember what R/P they use but Pauli from
www.offivaruste.com was selling those for 600€ a piece if i remmeber correctly. HDJ80 front is weak shit high pinion reverse cut model and not compatible with 40/60 series axles.
And if you are travelling to russia i recommend from my heart that forget leaf spring and convert to coils using range rover/lj/mb,hdj80 parts or similar, maybe even do-it-yourself parts. I have driven so many hunderd kilometer in "old Finland" Karelia (Nowadays part of russia...oooh those old thieving commie bastards) and everytime my ass is half meter up from drivers seat i wonder why the hell those range rover coil spring sets are not under my car yet. Of course if u travel using main roads you can do that trip with any car up to that point where roads just simply stop to exist. And believe me russian road can be something else than even very very very veeeeeeery bad european country road comes near to. You can go with SOA and leafs but i'd recommend that at least move front schackles to back (so called schackle reversal),use tractions bars front and back, maybe even extra coil srings with leaf or in center of rear axle, and you "never" have to worry about bent/broken leafs.
I think that KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) goes well with off road cars too. Less there is "not field repairable" electric/moving/not factory parts the better.
We have a saying here in Finland: Siberia teaches. I Hope that you never have to find out what it means yourself and all the luck for your future trip. There was one party from Finland/Estonia that tried to go to asia but they didnt quite make it. They were driving with proto sisu A-45/unimogs. If you understand Finnish you can read from trip ->
http://www.petrisimolin.com/ThePalst...TOPIC_ID=14569
or
http://www.roverfriends.fi/urali.htm and there is DVD for sale of that trip too.
Sorry about this preaching but i just came back from couple days off road trip from russia and i'm little ill because my camping stuff was meant for summer and those nights in tent without heating were freezing...
Edited by - mikjus on 30/10/2005 02:27:13